Poland has a population of over 38 million people.
A nation with a proud cultural heritage, Poland can trace its roots back over 1,000 years. Positioned at the centre of Europe, it has known turbulent and violent times. There have been periods of independence as well as periods of domination by other countries. Several million people, half of them Jews, died in World War II.

More information about Poland here [BBC country profiles]

Rich Literature
Despite the pressure of non-Polish administrations in Poland, who have often attempted to suppress the Polish language, a rich literature has developed over the centuries, and the language is currently the largest in terms of speakers of the West Slavic group. It is also the second most widely spoken Slavic language after Russian.

Origins of the Polish Language
Like Czech and Slovak, Polish is part of the West-Slavic group of the Indo-European languages. It came from the Proto-Slavic language which was used as the mother tongue of all past Slavic tribes. The Polish language has developed so much throughout history that the texts written in the Middle Ages are difficult to understand for today’s Poles and need to be read with a dictionary of archaisms.

Polish Dialects
While most Poles speak standard Polish, there are several dialects within the Polish language. These are easily understandable to native Polish speakers as they are based mostly on regional pronunciation and vocabulary changes. Different dialects within Polish include Silesia and Podale (highlander’s dialect). Kashubian is also spoken – this is a separate language used by the Polish living west of Gdansk near the Baltic Sea. It is quite rare, with between 100,000 and 200,000 speakers and is gradually becoming extinct.

Population Distribution in the UK (source Wikipedia.org)
The main hub of the London Polish community is Hammersmith in west London, as well as Ealing, Balham, Enfield and Haringey. The activities revolve around the Polish Social and Cultural Centre (POSK) in King Street. Polish newspapers and food shops are increasingly apparent following Poland’s entry into the European Union in May 2004. Many towns and cities in the UK have long established and relatively large Polish communities, most notably London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bradford, Leeds, Manchester and Nottingham. Other communities exist in locations such as Leicester, Slough, Reading and Melton Mowbray.
Poles have also settled in Hereford, Sheffield, Bolton, Bury, Northampton, Peterborough and Chorley in Lancashire. There is a long established Polish community in Bristol and there are also concentrations in Derby, South Yorkshire, South Wales, North Wales mainly in Wrexham, Rugby, Banbury, Luton, Evesham and Swindon. Scotland has seen a significant influx of Polish immigrants with estimates of Poles currently living in Scotland ranging from 40,000 according to General Register Office for Scotland up to 50,000 as per Polish Council, with around 5,000 in the Highlands region. This has led to the creation of a bilingual English-Polish newspaper. Carlisle in Cumbria, which is twinned with the Polish city of Słupsk, has a Polish population of over 1,600. Blackpool has about 5,000 immigrants living in and around the resort on the Fylde coast. The local newspaper is one of a handful of British newspapers to have its own online edition in Polish called Witryna Polska. Following the recent migrations, many towns and cities in the UK now have a growing number of Polish inhabitants. Polish workers are employed in agriculture and light industry in the countrysides of low-population density regions such as East Anglia and East Midlands.

Polish to English Translation
With an estimated 1 million Poles having emigrated to the United Kingdom in recent years (source: Polityka magazine), there is more need than ever for Polish to English translation as well as English to Polish translation.

Learning Polish
Polish can be very difficult for foreigners to learn due to its system of grammatical gender. Polish uses three genders – masculine, feminine and neuter – and is also broken down into animate and inanimate. It shares some Latin grammar and vocabulary and has three genders – masculine, feminine and neuter. Polish also uses the Latin alphabet and excludes the letters ‘q’, ‘v’ and ‘x’ except for in foreign words.

Work with a Reputable Translation Agency
With about 50 millions speakers of the Polish language worldwide, Polish Translation Services are in high demand. If you need Polish Translation then it’s essential that you work with a reputable translation agency who specialises in the Polish language.

20 Years Experience
Prestige Network has over 20 years of experience in language services and are specialists in the field of Polish Translation. Our Polish Translation services are used widely in both the commercial and public sectors by bodies including the IPS, NHS, Job Centres, courts, solicitors and many more and on a regular basis.

Accuracy and Reliability
All translators working with our Polish Translation Service are experts in their field, be it legal, construction, medical or any other sector, so you can rest assured that your Polish Translation will be professional, clear and accurate every time.

Our Reputation
We have a reputation you can rely on in the language services industry and it is built on over 20 years of experience, so when you place an order for Polish Translation you can be sure that you’re getting the best, every time.

Contact us today for a great quote and a great service! Phone Sales on 01635 292 789 or email us at sales@prestigenetwork.com

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Other facts from the BBC Poland Country Profile Page

Polish (Polski)  is the official language of Poland and is spoken by most of the 38 million inhabitants of Poland (census 2002). Whilst most Poles speak standard Polish, there are several dialects within the Polish language. These are easily understandable to native Polish speakers as they are based mostly on regional pronunciation and vocabulary changes.

Native speakers of Polish can also be found in Western Belarus, Ukraine and Eastern Lithuania and because of emigration various periods, millions of Polish-speakers can also be found in countries such as Ireland, Australia, Israel, Brazil, Canada, the United Kingdom, United States, etc. The estimated number of Poles who live beyond the borders of Poland is 10 million; with about 50 million people worldwide naming Polish as their mother tongue.

Understanding Polish

Prestige Network is a leading provider of Polish translation and Polish Interpreting services in the UK. Our Polish Translators and Polish interpreters regularly provide services to many organizations and institutes in both the Public and Private Sectors.

Each and every Polish Translator working for Prestige Network has native language fluency in Polish and our Polish Translator(s) are familiar with the cultural aspects and make sure that all Polish translations are communicating the right message, both in meaning and content. In other words, our Polish Translator(s) are also cultural translators that make your communication truly effective.

Our Polish Translators and Interpreters

Prestige recognizes the growing need to communicate in Polish in the UK and offers a wide range of services from legal translation to web-site localization in the Polish language. A Polish Translator who is employed by Prestige will be a native Polish speaker experienced in specific fields of expertise and will always follows a strict confidentiality policy and adheres to a code of conduct that is a trademark of our reliable, high quality and professionalism.

Prestige has access to an extensive resource of Polish Translators and Polish Interpreters and we pride ourselves in our ability to provide our clients with a Polish Translator that has the experience and knowledge of the area relevant to the client’s needs.

Polish Newspaper and Web Site Translation

Polish Language Services are being run as a Special Promotion from 10^th November to 21^st November 2008. During this two week period Prestige is offering Polish Translation @ £119 per 1000 words and face to face Polish Interpreting @ £99 per hour inclusive of all costs. 

Call our Sales Department now on 01635 292 789 and ask for either Chris or Salome. When placing your order be sure to quote reference: PN-NOV1

Please note that these rates are exclusive of VAT and there is a minimum order of 1 hour of Polish Interpreting or 1000 words of Polish Translation; conditions may apply.

At Prestige Network, we believe in integration via equality. We provide numerous public and private sector organisations all across the UK with a variety of professional language services. In doing so, we create a forum for individuals to be understood in their native language, and also to take advantage of all the services and benefits that other UK residents are entitled to; making effective, positive integration possible.

Poland became a full member of the European Union in May 2004. Since then, many Polish nationals have arrived in the UK to take advantage of the higher wages paid by companies here. In order to cope with the need for language translation, language companies have found that there has been a great increase in the demand for their Polish Language Services and have had to increase their resources accordingly.

Prestige has taken a leading initiative with regard to providing for the needs of the growing Polish Community in the UK and has created an in-house Polish Language Support Desk with access to over 250 Polish Language specialists located right across the UK; making it possible for Prestige to meet your Polish Language needs with confidence.

Call us now on 01635 866 888 or visit our dedicated Polish web sites:

www.Polish-Interpreting.co.uk

www.Translation-Polish.co.uk

View (and download) it now, click here: Polish Phrase Card

Aim: To enable the Financial Mail on Sunday to engage with its Polish readers by translating a special supplement on ‘Poles in Britain’ into Polish and providing a Polish translation of an online forum

Project Outline: An innovative translation service project which involved translating into Polish – within a matter of days – 6,000 words of a Financial Mail on Sunday report highlighting the financial aspect of the sizeable Polish population currently in the UK.

The Polish translation of the supplement was made available on the Financial Mail on Sunday’s website at www.thisismoney.co.uk/a-thisismoney-special and also appeared subsequently in print in the Polish Express.

Publication of the supplement was followed by an online forum on the subject on the Financial Mail on Sunday website, which was also translated into Polish for the website by Prestige Network.

The project means that the Financial Mail on Sunday has become what is believed to be the first national newspaper in the UK to provide a supplement in Polish.

Prestige Remarks that “This kind of innovation is a great way of engaging people from other cultures, helping them not to feel disenfranchised. We felt hugely privileged to be approached to enable the Financial Mail on Sunday to be the first national newspaper to produce a supplement in Polish. It was very satisfying to be involved in such an initiative.”

And the customer says “This was a very exciting project. Prestige Network worked well with us and got behind the spirit of the initiative, which was to do something innovative to engage a growing part of the population. We’ve had a lot of very positive feedback on the project and we are already planning to do another one.”

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